CDD/Freelance QA Engineer

In this role, you will be the QA reference for two product squads at Swan: KYC/Onboarding (how individuals and companies open an account and get verified) and Capital Deposit (how entrepreneurs deposit share capital to incorporate their company). You will join the QA team, which works with every product squad so that Swan ships reliable banking features to its partners. The QA team is small, experienced and close-knit: we share practices and back each other up.

✨ Your mission

Your main mission is to ensure the quality of everything the KYC/Onboarding and Capital Deposit squads release for the duration of the contract, while reducing the automated-test debt on these flows and making good use of AI to test faster and better.

✨ Main Tasks

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You will join a QA team of 4 QA engineers and a QA Platform Engineer led by the QA Manager, inside an Engineering organization of [X]+ people. Each QA engineer is embedded in one or more product squads (4 to 8 engineers with a dedicated Product Manager) that plan their roadmap quarterly and deploy as they go. Day to day, you will work closely with the engineers, Engineering Managers and Product Managers of the KYC/Onboarding and Capital Deposit squads, and with other QA team members.
Within the QA team, we share a common automation framework, common tools (Qase, Linear, Notion, GitHub, home-made requirement repository tool) and an AI-assisted QA pipeline that we keep improving together.

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You are a confirmed QA Engineer / software tester (around 4+ years of experience), ideally in an agile product team

• You can work with several teams at once: you prioritize, you say what will and won't be done, and you keep everyone informed.

• You are comfortable testing APIs (GraphQL or REST) as well as web interfaces.

• You have hands-on experience with test automation, ideally Playwright and/or Cucumber/Gherkin, and you are comfortable reading and writing TypeScript (or a similar language).

• You build good relationships easily, you communicate clearly in writing and out loud, and you can explain a risk or a bug to an engineer, a PM or a business stakeholder alike.

• You already use AI tools (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT…) in your testing work, or you are keen to, and you keep a critical eye on what they produce.

• Experience in banking, fintech or another regulated industry is a strong plus.

• You know the ISTQB concepts and vocabulary (test levels, test techniques, risk-based testing, defect lifecycle) and apply them pragmatically. An ISTQB certification is a plus.

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• Hiring Manager interview

• Case study

• Peer Interview automation, test execution, collaboration

• Last interview with our CTO